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Helen Fawkes reports from Russia during her tine as foreign correspondent

Much of Helen's life is now based around facing the facts of her cancer and sharing the traumatic news with her loved ones.

She is determined to live life to its fullest, however, and remains stoically committed to her work and drawing up a new list of ambitions and dreams in the face of the cancer.

Ms Fawkes added: 'It’s a case of here we go again. It’s so frustrating after all I’ve been through. With this stage of cancer my treatment options are limited. There are only a few types of drugs that can help me. This is terrible, terrible news but it could be worse. I could be terminally ill.

'I know how I’m probably going to die and roughly when it’ll happen. It’s weird having a likely expiration date. I really hope my Best Before is at least 2023. But you know it’s not the years in your life that matter; it’s the life in your years.'